Alek Wek Quotes
In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.
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The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.
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I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.
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Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.
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In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.
